CITY HALL
• Councillors spend thousands in public cash on donations that boost their profile [ Globe & Mail ]
• Top-spending councillor calls for budget cut [ Toronto Sun ]
• Miller donates pay raise to own office budget [ Toronto Sun ]
• Giambrone expensed cab ride for date [ Toronto Star ]
MAYORAL RACE
• ‘It isn’t a campaign, it’s war now’: Ford’s sibling [ National Post ]
• Miller campaign chief joins Pantalone [ Globe & Mail ]
• Mayoral candidate says it’s time for tolls [ Globe & Mail ]
OTHER NEWS
• Is this home art, or garbage? [ Toronto Star ]
• Hume: It’s a long way to Ireland Park [ Toronto Star ]
• Your City My City: A reluctant 416 emigrant weighs in [ Toronto Star ]
• United Way of Peel Region invests in community [ Toronto Star
• Squeeze play as Jays, G20 to overlap [ National Post ]
• Ryerson in the market for bright ideas [ Globe & Mail ]
• Ryerson faces $10M class-action lawsuit [ Toronto Star ]
• Bus driver’s fate decided today [ Globe & Mail ]
2 comments
On the surface, a city councillor who donates to local charities sounds like a good thing to do. However, it is ‘blatant vote-buying’ when the councillor is question gets a photo op or has his or her name prominently attached to the ‘good deed’. It is a practice that must be stopped – or rather, redirected.
How about taking that money from each councillor, putting it in a local ward grants program that is administered by a third party? It would require some kind of lottery or well thought out points rules to ensure that it gives the most bang for the buck. That way, the money comes from the city, not from the local personality.
Have to agree with Ken on this one… the days when Councillors get to play ‘Lady Bountiful’ should have been long past…